Digitization is rapidly entering all spheres of life, and now not only large companies but also medium-sized companies need their own IT specialists. Today the country lacks 300,000 ICT employees, despite the fact that almost all technical universities train specialists, bachelors and masters in this field.
Young people have already understood the trend and appreciated the fact that here you can count on decent wages. And the area itself is very appealing to people born in the age of gadgets. Therefore, many are going or planning to go. But in what sense?
After school & ndash; at the university
Vitaly Sergeev from Stavropol after school he entered university, choosing digital security. While still a student, he started working in a company that installs security systems in production facilities. And I realized that I had done the right thing, because the job also became extra education & ndash; he learned practical skills from experienced senior colleagues. 6 years have passed, and now he himself has become a specialist who takes 'under his wing' & # 39; & # 39; youth.
Finish school, choose a specialty and enter a university & ndash; this is the most common way to get vocational training, which works in various fields, including ICT.
But you have to understand that the university & ndash; it's always more of a theory, and practice starts after. Of course, many universities today are calibrating training programs to meet the needs of future employers of their graduates. But ICT & ndash; such a sphere that is developing by leaps and bounds, and it is difficult to follow it.
Some universities have joint programs with major IT players. Having integrated such a program, the student is already closer to the practice, and after the training can even count on a job in a leading company. For example, Mail.Ru & nbsp; Group thus cooperates with 7 universities. The InfoWatch group of companies, as well as foreign IT giants represented in Russia: Microsoft, Huawei, also have programs.
The latter, in particular, is expanding its “ ICT Academy '' since 2015. This is an educational cooperation program that the company offers to educational institutions around the world. In recent years, more than 4,000 students have been trained there. In Russia, 70 universities and colleges have joined the program. It includes courses on networking, storage, cloud computing, artificial intelligence. And last year a new direction appeared – & mdash; Cloud services architect. It & ndash; on using public clouds.
As part of the program, not only students study, but also teachers & ndash; everyone has the opportunity to take exams and become the holder of the international certificate of one of the leaders in the global ICT industry.
However, large companies usually cooperate with renowned universities. Thus, not all young people, especially in the regions, can follow training there. And not all new IT people, especially regions, are going to work in flagship companies. Many will be content with a more modest scale.
In this case, Vitaly's path seems to be the most effective. Mid-sized regional companies will welcome a promising young student who, after graduation, will stay here to work.
This is if we view the situation as an individual. And if we are talking about the country as a whole, then the university course does not cover the needs of computer scientists. Every year, Russian universities and technical schools graduate more than 80,000 graduates, and the need for a year increases by 95,000 people. Over the next 4 years, their number, as suggested by the Ministry of Telecoms and Mass Communications, is expected to be multiplied by 2 – & mdash; up to 1 million people. But that won't cover up the understaffing.
What if there is no friend?
Igor Anikeev from Moscow he entered university, like many of his peers: where did my mother say. Diploma. But working in the 'business economics and finance' specialty by no means inspired him. For a while he was lost in the hustle and bustle, but then a programmer friend offered him to work in pairs. I taught him the basics, and Igor started to help him with his work, immersing himself more and more in this field and simultaneously improving his knowledge and skills. Two years have passed, he started to work independently, and today, after two more years, he realizes that he has already reached a good professional level.
This is also how many children discover ICT. But only those who have programmer friends willing to share their knowledge, make time with a friend, and even able to teach. What if there wasn't such a friend?
Plus, we all understand that you can't 'top up' knowledge once for a lifetime. And in an industry such as ICT, where innovations appear literally every day, even more. Therefore, you should not only constantly improve your professional level, but also understand which sources are best to use for that, i.e. be good at focusing on the area of educational opportunities in the computer field.
Learning from leaders
Alexey Kozakov from Voronezh I went to ICT while still in school & ndash; in addition to his studies, he took programming courses. By the time he graduated from school, he already had orders. Having decided that in classical universities he will no longer be able to acquire the level of knowledge he needs, the guy went the other way & ndash; distance learning courses from Yandex and Mail.Ru & nbsp; Group. “ Graduated from a large, well-known company & ndash; in our field, it is more abruptly than a university degree, ”he believes.
Indeed, the companies that set the tone in the market form programs with practical cases, show current trends in technological development, broaden horizons, enriching computer scientists with the ability to see and think big.
In addition, they organize hackathons and other types of competitions between young professionals and students, and these events become not only an incentive to progress in the profession, but also a good opportunity to improve their professional level by view of their preparation.
In November alone, more than 20 major hackathons were held, including in the field of artificial intelligence and big data analysis, creation of business services, products software and smart products. drones, and even the first hackathon in Russia dedicated to developing items for the Metaverse. Their organizers were Skolkovo and BIA TECHNOLOGIES, production companies from Rosneft and Evraz, VTB and Home Credit banks, government agencies and ANO Russia & ndash; a land of opportunity ', others.
Stage 1 of the Eurasian Huawei competition Cup & nbsp; 2021, hosted in Russia by the international IT giant since 2015, has also ended. Their scale and popularity among Russian computer scientists is evidenced by their participation: more than 20,000 students and young specialists from Russia and Eurasian countries.
Children are drawn to these competitions by the relevance of the directions offered, as the company changes the list of nominations every year so that they correspond to the most advanced trends in the field of ICT. This time, the most popular nominations were: IP network technologies and protocols (10 & nbsp; 116 participants), artificial intelligence models and methods (9 & nbsp; 981), Huawei mobile application design (9 & nbsp; 740), next generation mobile communications technologies and standards (8 & nbsp; 466), data center components (8 & nbsp; 302), ICT browser (5 & nbsp; 715).
In addition, everyone has the opportunity to prepare well for the competition, as the company has opened a free online school with access to their experts' lectures, as well as all educational materials. and homework to prepare for & nbsp; certification exams, which are taken by employees.
Besides, students of classical universities take the opportunity to immerse themselves in the profession in this way. The organizers have provided AiF statistics of the participants & ndash; the most complete entered in the competition (in descending order): Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, MIREA, St. Petersburg State Telecommunications University of the name prof. Bonch-Bruevitch, Moscow Bauman State Technical University, Ural Federal University, ITMO, St. Petersburg, Lomonosov Moscow State University, State University of Telecommunications and Volga Informatics, Samara, Higher School of Economics, Federal University of Kazan. Huawei has established partnerships with many of them.